Upon the same roadway that, in 1775, the Minute Men marched to first engage the British Regulars the Hawthorne Inn provides an excellent base from which to explore the treasures of Concord's many-layered past. The world has heard the voice of Concord resounding for three and one half centuries: from the Indian village of Musketequid to a Puritan frontier settlement, sleepy farming community to hotbed of the Revolutionary Movement, Boston backwater to the town that incubated Transcendentalism and nurtured the Flowering of American Literature. All of this is at our doorstep.